Brunet, Tyler David Price2016-04-072016-04-072016-04-07http://hdl.handle.net/10222/71363Phylogenetic software and techniques from natural language processing can be applied to the analysis of the structure of academic disciplines. This is possible through a synchronic analysis based on comparisons of the conceptual apparatuses of disciplines, as they are represented in the terminological characteristics of representative discourses. This empirical approach enjoys a superior justificatory status to merely intuitive representations. Finally, this work helps place one of the oldest structuralist problems in the philosophy of science in the scientific context it deserves: ``How should we represent the relationship between disciplines?"enDisciplinologyStructures of KnowledgeWikipediaDigital HumanitiesThesis